abc and the war war post has romney at 48% and obama at 49%. wolf blitzer, you have a special combing on this evening, we all know that the winner in this race will be the candidate with the most electoral votes. so what do we take -- what do we kind of grasp from his national polls then? >> you know, there's certainly a possibility, similar to what happened in 2000, that one of the candidates would get a majority of the popular vote, but not necessarily the 270 you need in the electoral college to be elected president of the united states. remember in 2000, al gore got about half a million more votes than george w. bush. but he lost florida by 537 votes as all of our viewers remember, and as a result, george w. bush had enough to win the more than 270 you need to be elected president of the united states and so you could have a situation that would develop in this particular case, maybe romney would win the popular vote but obama would win the electoral college. it wouldn't be the first time and that is certainly a possibility at this point. t